I finally managed to iron out all the deployment issues and get the Code Spaces Beta onto our servers last night.
To date I have recieved 146 requests for Beta accounts which I have to say is (a lot) more than I expected, As a result its taking me a while to set them all up. I created about 15 accounts last night and will do some more today, but I will also implement a website at www.codespaces.com where you can create your own accounts (either today or tomorrow).
This Beta release is far from being the complete product but it’s definatly usable. The following features did not make this release but will be implemented shortly.
- Quick Search
The right hand pane contains a Quick Search box, however the code for this is currently commented out as it’s not complete. I expect to have this done by the weekend.
- Project Milestones This feature is currently missing and will be implemented next week.
- Road Map and Change Log These features require the Milestones functionality and will be implemented next week.
- Linking Work Items to SVN Revisions I have developed a novel way of linking workitems for svn revisions however the code is not quite finnished so it did not make this release, I expect to have this implemented in a week.
- Documents I plan to include a documents tab where you will be able to upload document and link them to SVN revisions, Milestones or Work Items however several dependancies need to be implemented before i can start this.
- Wiki The wiki functionality currently availible is limited, and required a better style sheet. I plan to implement this next week.
- Public Portal We plan to implement a pubilc portal where your customers/users can see project details that you wish to publish as well as forums and documents. This will be implemented within a month (or two).
- Performance I have not made any effort in reducing the size of the CSS and JS, I have also not added the required indexes to the CodeSpaces database. As a result the performance of the application is not as good as it should be (although it’s more than usable). I will implement the database indexes tommorrow and enable gZip on the appache server to reduce the js and css size next week.
- Account Registration As I mentioned i’m currenlty creating the Beta accounts manually, however I will implement a real codespaces.com website over the next two days that will give product information and enable the creation of Accounts for anyone who wishes to try it out.
Please let me know if you can think of any further issues, or features and i will add them to the ever growing Todo List.
